The Producers

Tiki Oasis is produced by the von Stroheim Family since 2001.

Baby Doe von Stroheim

Baby Doe is the Artistic Director and Producer of the first ever burlesque convention Tease-O-Rama (created in 2001). Baby Doe was featured in a 2012 San Francisco Chronicle article about parents who rock. In 2011, Baby Doe was honored by the Burlesque Hall of Fame with the “Sassy Lassy Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Art of Burlesque,” in recognition of Tease-O-Rama’s impact. Baby Doe has been both a Guest of Honor (2009) and Guest Speaker (2011) at Burlycon in Seattle. She has been a judge at many burlesque competitions including Burlesque Hall of Fame and Viva Las Vegas. Over the past 14 years, Baby Doe has served as the Artistic Director and Choreographer of The Devil-Ettes. San Francisco’s first (and only!) synchronized 60’s go go dance troupe. Her passion for preserving the historical dances of the 60’s has led Baby Doe to create showcases such as The Go Go Spectacular and Pip Squeak-A-Go-Go, a children’s dance party that teaches the lost art of go go to the next generation. Little Known Fact about Baby Doe: in 1994 she created a webpage called Baby Doe's Obsessed. It covered her love of tiki, tiki collectors and other wacky collections. This mysterious tiki lover sparked interest in a young man named Otto... and the rest is... well... Tiki history!!

Otto von Stroheim

Otto was born and raised in the suburbs of Los Angeles. Young Otto was never more than a short car ride away from various Tiki restaurants, hotels, and apartments, Disneyland, and the beach.

After 10 years of backyard Tiki parties, in January of 1995 Otto launched Tiki News zine to chronicle his Tiki travels and network the then-tiny Tiki community. He started a tradition of hosting art exhibits for the cover artists of Tiki News and later curated art shows as his Tiki Art Now! series. With each of the three Tiki Art Now! exhibits a full color catalog was printed to further document the Tiki art scene. Meanwhile he began booking his own Disc Jockey nights as well as larger Tiki events in an effort to bring Tiki to the masses.

Since 1995 he has published seventeen issues of his Zine, and written liner notes for Exotica reissues of Arthur Lyman and Don Ho, introductions to books, and magazine articles. He has appeared on local and national television (Home and Garden's "That Sixties Home" and Food Network's "Unwrapped"), National Public Radio's "California Report", Internet Culture Guide "Flavorpill", and has been quoted in nearly every major newspaper in America. Otto has a monthly DJ gig each first Wednesday at Forbidden Island Tiki Lounge.